Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 400.213km
Opened : 1916
Closed : 26 July 1971
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Named after a local landowner Langley and his wife (maiden name Vale)
Notes : A 45.7 metre Up side platform was constructed, later reduced to 10 metres. There was no town of any size nearby, although the mill houses ("Rotten Row") were sited fairly close by. 6/7/1915 - a trolley line to the sawmill was constructed. 28/8/1918 platform construction by W Langley was started and taken over by Public Works to complete. 15/2/1922 loop siding laid in, this was removed on 17/11/1970. During the 1950s the only passenger traffic of any note was the school train to Taree. Dean Nowlan relocated one of the platform buildings for use as a cow shed directly behind the location of the station when it was demolished in the 1980s, the building no longer exists.
Langley Vale (Suzanne Hohnke)
Location of the Langley Vale station, north of Taree, opened in 1916, closed in 1971. (Six Maps)
1940's Langley Vale. photo Robert Bulley